Branch name support & character

From: 夏大雨 <xia.jason23@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 7, 2017, 03:27 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+zMtjmhrE54=ke6vVDGOcrbHkdPuE-Gf5cwQEp8LL2h+xen0g@mail.gmail.com>

I want to merge branch a to branch b so I rename branch b to a&b, but when I push a&b to remote repo, '&' is took as & operator for shell, and git push fails. So it would be better that branch name support & character for me.

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